Roger de Sechelles

Roger de Sechelles (1735-) was the Republican Consulate's governor for France's territories in the Americas during the French Revolution.

Biography
Roger de Sechelles was born on Martinique in the Caribbean in 1735 to a family of French sugar planters, and his family turned a profit from their crop business. Sechelles harbored conservative views, believing that slavery should persist and that plantocracies should continue to prosper, but he sided with the republican cause during the French Revolution. Sechelles was appointed governor of France's territories in the Americas after the revolution in 1789.